{{Short description|Extinct family of sawflies}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Norian|Campanian}} | image = | taxon = Sepulcidae | authority = Rasnitsyn, 1968 | subdivision_ranks = | subdivision = }}
'''Sepulcidae''' is an extinct family of stem sawflies in the order Hymenoptera. The family is known primarily from late Mesozoic fossils found in 1968 in Transbaikalia. The insects were distant relatives of modern sawflies and are part of the living superfamily Cephoidea.
The genus ''Sepulca'' was identified by Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn. It was named by his colleague and a science-fiction author Kirill Eskov after fictional entities called ''sepulki'', found in Stanisław Lem's ''The Star Diaries'' and ''Observation on the Spot''.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} Каракоз Роман. Где живут сепульки: [О двух видах палеонтологических перепончатокрылых — Sepulka mirabilis и Sepulenia syricta] // Новая интересная газета (Киев). — 2004. — № 1. — С. 5. — (Блок Z: Просто фантастика). [http://stangwlem.ru/bibl/lb2004.shtml Аннотация]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ::''Quote: Оказывается, сепулек, которые оказались вовсе не моллюсками, а перепончатокрылыми насекомыми, открыл Александр Павлович Расницын (кстати, работающий в одной лаборатории с известным писателем Кириллом Еськовым). Он-то и посылал в свое время Лему свою книжку, где, кроме прочего, были описаны Сепулька удивительная (Sepulca mirabilis) и Сепуление со свистом'' (дословно – свистящее: Sepulenia syricta).</ref> The relation to Lem's ''sepulki'' is understandable in both Polish and Russian, but their English translation obscures their association with ancient insects as they are translated as ''Scrupts'' in English editions of Lem's novels.<ref name="scrupts">{{Cite web|url=http://english.lem.pl/faq#scrupts|title=FAQ}}</ref>
==Genera== These 17 genera belong to the family Sepulcidae:<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Kopylov|first1=D.S.|last2=Rasnitsyn|first2=A.P.|year=2017|title=New sepulcids (Hymenoptera: Sepulcidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Asia: II. Ghilarellinae and Trematothoracinae|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317785397|journal=Paleontological Journal|volume=51|issue=3|pages=291–303|doi=10.1134/s0031030117030029}}</ref>
* Subfamily Sepulcinae <small>Rasnitsyn, 1968</small> ** † ''Sepulca'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1968</small> ** † ''Sepulenia'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1968</small> * Subfamily Parapamphiliinae <small>Rasnitsyn, 1968</small> ** † ''Micramphilius'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1993</small> ** † ''Pamparaphilius'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1993</small> ** † ''Parabakharius'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1993</small> ** † ''Parapamphilius'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1968</small> ** † ''Shurabisca'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1968</small> ** † ''Sogutia'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1977</small> * Subfamily Xyelulinae <small>Rasnitsyn, 1993</small> ** † ''Neoxyelula'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1993</small> ** † ''Onokhoius'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1990</small> ** † ''Xyelula'' <small>Rasnitzyn, 1969</small> * Subfamily Trematothoracinae <small>Rasnitsyn, 1988</small> ** † ''Prosyntexis''<ref name=prosyntexis/><ref name=montsecensis/> <small>Sharkey, 1990</small> ** † ''Thoracotrema'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1988</small> ** † ''Trematothorax'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1988</small> (= ''Trematothoracoides'' <small>Zhang, Zhang & Wei, 2001</small>) * Subfamily Ghilarellinae <small>Rasnitsyn, 1988</small> ** † ''Ghilarella'' <small>Rasnitsyn, 1988</small> ** † ''Meiaghilarella'' <small>Rasnitsyn & Martinez-Delclos, 2000</small> * Subfamily ''incertae sedis'' ** † ''Xaxexis'' <small>Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1989</small>
== References == {{Reflist |refs= <ref name=prosyntexis>{{cite journal|last1=Martins-Neto|first1=R. G.|last2=Melo|first2=A. C.|last3=Prezoto|first3=F.|year=2007|title=A new species of wasp (Symphyta, Sepulcidae) from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Northeast Brazil)|url=http://www.entomol.org/Issues/pdf/v9(1)-1.pdf|journal=Journal of the Entomological Research Society|volume=9|issue=1|pages=1-6}}</ref> <ref name=montsecensis>Alexandr Rasnitsyn, Jörg Ansorge. New Early Cretaceous hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from Sierra del Montsec (Spain). „Paläontologische Zeitschrift". 74 (3), ss. 335-341, 2000-12. {{doi|10.1007/BF02988105}}</ref> }}
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†Sepulcidae Category:Prehistoric insect families Category:Mesozoic arthropods Category:Commemoration of Stanisław Lem Category:Taxa named by Alexandr Rasnitsyn